Prologue to Tablet 5b, Anzu and the Igigi Rebel

Six thousand years ago, astronaut/pioneers from the planet Nibiru dictated Enuma elish--the Creation Epic--to the Sumerians. The Creation Epic says our Sun, a solitary star at this time in its history(1), first created a planet the Nibirans called Tiamat. Tiamat was the proto-Earth. It orbited Sun counterclockwise.

Next, the Sun, called Apsu, created Mercury and propelled Mercury with water and gold to Tiamat. Venus and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed as pairs and orbited the Sun counterclockwise too. Tiamat lacked a partner-planet, but one of her moons, Kingu, enlarged. Kingu was about to become Tiamat's partner planet and orbit the Sun, rather than Tiamat.

But, four billion years ago, before Kingu could attain planetary orbit around the sun, Nibiru entered the Solar System clockwise and split off a piece of Neptune. That chunk of Neptune became its moon, Triton. Triton, unlike other moons in the System, orbits Neptune clockwise. As Nibiru passed through the Solar System, it lost three moons, tore four moons from Uranus and tilted Uranus’ orbit. Then Nibiru ripped eleven moons from Tiamat and pulled Gaga, Saturn’s largest moon, into clockwise orbit (between Neptune and Uranus) where Gaga is now Pluto.

Some of Nibiru's moons hit Tiamat, creating the Pacific Basin in what was left of Tiamat. That intact remainder of Tiamat is Earth. In the Pacific, waters and life-seeds of Nibiru and Tiamat evolved together. The shards of Tiamat (from the Pacific gouge Nibiru’s moon made) are Asteroids and comets. Nibiru's gravity took all Tiamat’s moons but Kingu. Nibiru’s invasion left Kingu lifelessly orbiting Earth. Tiamat's other moons became satellites of Nibiru.

Nibiru stabilized into a clockwise orbit (equal to 3,600 orbits of Earth around the Sun).

In the Creation Epic, the Sumerians knew and wrote of an advanced civilization on a planet in a different solar system. They had the concept of a pulsar, the star around which Nibiru had orbited before that star collapsed. The Niburan astronauts, the Lords, had their Sumerian scribes write--only lately being confirmed by our scientists--of the composition and movement of the astronomical bodies of Solaris' system. The Lords told the Sumerians that there was water on asteroids, comets, Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, also on the rings of Saturn and Saturn's and Jupiter's moons as well. Our astronomers recently confirmed what the Lords dictated. The Sumerian Creation Epic lends compelling evidence for the extraterrestrial settlement of Earth by Nibirans, the human astronauts who came to be regarded as the gods of Earth.

Millennia pass after Nibiru and the solar system achieve relative orbital stability around the Solaris. Life on Nibiru evolves, culminates in technologically-sophisticated, long-lived homo sapiens, the humans of Nibiru. Nibirans unify, after disastrous thermonuclear wars, under a single kingship. But Nibiru is losing its atmosphere, critical to heat regulation and survival.500,000 years ago, King Lahma vacillates over how to deal with the crisis. Should he nuke the volcanoes to regenerate the atmosphere? Or should he send miners to Solaris' Asteroids, where probes registered gold which could be powdered and spread as a shield for Nibiru's atmosphere? Prince Alalu, exasperated by Lahmu’s inaction and desperate for action to save Nibiru, pushes Lahma off a tower.

Lahma's heir, Anu, agrees at first to Alalu’s rule. Alalu and Anu seal their alliance when Anu's firstborn son, Ea/Enki (whose autobiography, compiled by Sitchin, is the principal authority for our tale), marries Dimkina, Alalu's Daughter. Ea relates how Anu had earlier denied him his bride-to-be, his (Ea’s) half-sister Ninmah, when she bore the child of their half-brother, Enlil. Anu simultaneously honors Ea and proclaims feality to Alalu be offering a compromise successor to the houses of both Alalu and Anu via the child Dimkina and Ea will create, the baby Marduk.

Alalu nukes the volcanoes, but this fails to re-establish Nibiru’s atmosphere. He also fails to get gold for an atmospheric shield from the Asteroids; the rocket of goldminers he sends crashes without survivors en route. For nine more Nibiran years (nine orbits of Nibiru around Solaris), Alalu’s rule gives no relief from atmospheric degredation.

Anu, rightful king by Nibiran tradition, challenges Alalu. "Anu gave battle to Alalu. To hand-to-hand combat, with bodies naked, Alalu he challenged. Alalu in combat was defeated; by acclaim Anu was hailed as king." (Sitchin, Lost Book of Enki pages 24 - 39)

Alalu steals a missile-armed rocket and blasts from Nibiru to Earth. From Earth, he controls the gold Nibiru needs to survive. He positions his nukes to blast Nibiru on its next pass by Earth. Alalu dangles gold as a carrot and menaces missiles as a stick. To Anu on Nibiru he beams, "On another world I am, the gold of salvation I have found. The fate of Nibiru is in my hands. To my conditions you must give heed!" [Sitchin, Lost Book of Enki page 60]

"Return my throne," Alalu demands. But Anu's Foremost Son, Enlil, demands proof of gold on Earth. So Alalu documents his proof and transmits it to the home planet. Enlil distrusts the proof. He asks Anu to convene the Nibiru Council. In the Council, Enlil and the counselors implore Anu to keep his kingship.

The scientist Ea, Firstborn Son of Anu, addresses the Council. Although Ea is Anu’s Firstborn Son, Ea is second in succession to Anu’s throne. The first to succeed Anu will be Enlil, the Foremost Son. Enlil is first in succession because his mother, Anu’s Royal Spouse, Antu, is Anu's half-sister. This makes Enlil, not Ea, Anu's Foremost Son by Nibiru succession rules. Ea, however, though he’s only Firstborn–not Foremost--Son, is also married to Damkina, Alalu’s Daughter. As Alalu’s son-in-law as well as Anu’s Firstborn, Ea could be an acceptable go-between for both Anu and Alalu. Thus all listen intently to Ea.

Ea proposes that he, in person, verify gold on Earth. If there's gold there, Ea says, let Alalu be Earth's King. If the gold saves Nibiru's atmosphere, Anu and Alalu can wrestle for kingship of Nibiru. "Let me in a chariot [rocket] to Earth journey, a path through the Bracelet [Asteroids] with water, not fire [Alalu had used nuclear missiles to get through the Asteroids] I shall fashion. On Earth, from the waters let me the precious gold to obtain; to Nibiru back it will be sent." [op.cit: 66] Anu endorses Ea’s plan and sends him with pilot Anzu and fifty male astronauts to Earth. Enlil seethes with frustration that his rival Ea has pre-empted the heroic mission to Earth.

Ea, en route to Earth in his spaceship, uses water the ship carries to blast Asteroids from his path. His blasting exhausts the water the ship carries. The power system in the rocket becomes perilously low on water it needs for its propulsion system as well, so Ea has Anzu land the craft next to a lake on Mars. There they draw water, then rocket off again for Earth, "its gold Nibiru's fate for salvation or doom containing." [op.cit., 71] 

When they splash down in the Persian Gulf, Alalu guides Ea and his men ashore. Ea builds a settlement, Eridu, at the head of the Persian Gulf, extracts gold from the Gulf and builds a plane from which he and his personal pilot, Abgal, prospect for gold and take soil samples from all over the planet.  

Anu sends orders from Nibiru to Earth. He commands Ea to send Alalu's ship back to Nibiru with as much gold as possible. In Alalu’s rocket, Ea and Abgal find seven nuclear missiles. They hide the nukes in a cave.

Anzu, the interplanetary pilot, comes to ready Alalu's rocket to return to Nibiru. When he sees the missiles gone from the ship, Anzu confronts Ea.

Anzu reminds Ea of how, en route to Earth, when they’d relied only on water cannon to blast through the Asteroids, they’d almost killed their engine from insufficient water. "So," says Anzu,"I need the nukes you took from this ship to get through the Asteroids to Nibiru."

Ea retorts, "Foresworn is the weapons' use."  [SItichin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, page 82]. "In view of your attitude, I’m replacing you as pilot; you stay here on Earth. Abgal, my personal pilot, will take Alalu’s ship back to Nibiru. And he’ll do it with water cannon only. I said no nukes and I mean it." Ea programs a return route through the Asteroids.

Abgal flies the spacecraft to Nibiru with sample gold to test as an atmospheric shield there. 

On Nibiru, scientists process the gold "to make of it the finest dust, to skyward launch it was hauled away. A Shar [one orbit of Nibiru around the Sun, equal to 3,600 Earth years; Nibiruans live so long they seem immortal by our standards] did the fashioning last, a Shar did the testing continue. With rockets was the dust heavenward carried, by crystals’ beams was it dispersed. [But] when Nibiru near the Sun came, the golden dust was by its rays disturbed; the healing in the atmosphere was dwindled, the breach to bigness returned." [Sitchin, Z., Lost Book of Enki, page 86] Anu sends Abgal back to Earth for more gold.

On Earth again, Abgal finds only a small gold yield, all Ea could mine from the Gulf so far. Ea sends Abgal to Nibiru again with all they have, while he prospects. He finds gold, huge veins of it, in southeast Africa (Abzu). Jubilant, Ea announces his find to Nibiru.

Back on Nibiru, Anu and Enlil receive Ea's news of vast veins of gold. Enlil, angry still that brother Ea leads the Earth Mission, demands proof, not just of gold, but of lots of gold. "Ea already gave false hope that enough gold could come from Earth’s waters to save Nibiru’s atmosphere." Anu tells Enlil he’s putting him in charge of the Earth mission and sends him to check on Ea’s find.

Enlil makes it to Earth and beams back that, despite his initial doubts, Earth probably has gold enough to save Nibiru’s atmosphere. But the basic rivalry between Ea and Enlil that is to plague Earth surfaces again.*

"Father Anu," Enlil broadcasts from Earth to Nibiru, "Affirm, by the law of succession, that I, your son by your own half-sister Antu, precedes and has authority over Ea, though, he, your eldest son, be." Enlil implores Anu, "Come to Earth in person and deal with Alalu, too, who thinks he’s the boss here and says he should rule Nibiru as well.

"So, 416, 000 years ago, Anu flies to Earth and draws lots with Ea and Enlil. One of them, Anu decrees, will rule Nibiru; one, African mining operations and sea transport; and one of them will control the Persian Gulf headquarters. "By their lots the tasks they divided; Anu to Nibiru to return, its ruler on the throne to remain. The Edin [Mesopotamia] to Enlil was allotted, to be Lord of Command, more settlements to establish, of the skyships and their heros charge to take. Of all the lands until they the bar of the seas encounter, the leader to be. To Ea the seas and the oceans as his domain were granted, lands beyond the bar of the waters by him to be governed, in the Abzu [southeastern Africa] to be the master, with ingenuity the gold to procure.’" [op.cit. 92-93]

Enlil’s first act is to award Enki his initial settlement, Eridu, on the Persian Gulf, in perpetuity.

"Forward toward Anu Alalu stepped, shouted, ‘Mastery of Earth to me was allotted; that was the promise when the gold finds to Nibiru I announced! Nor have I the claim to Nibiru’s throne forsaken.’" [op.cit. 93] Anu wrestles Alalu. "Anu on the chest of Alalu with his foot pressed down, victory in the wrestling thereby declaring, ‘I am King’"

But when Anu lifts his foot from Alalu, "swiftly he the manhood of Anu bit off, the malehood of Anu Alalu did swallow.!" [op.cit. 94]  Enlil ties Alalu up while Ea gives Anu first-aid.   Anu groans, glares at Alalu, "You'll die, Alalu, slowly and painfully from my seed."

Anu condemns Alalu to spend his last days on Mars. Anu, on his return trip to Nibiru, drops Alalu on Mars, with food, tools and his kinsman Anzu to care for him.

When Anu arrives back on Nibiru, he tells the Council his plans for gold hunting through the solar system. He's ordering continuous freight rockets to and from Earth. The rockets will shuttle among way-stations on Mars, Earth’s Moon, other planets and satellites between Nibiru and the sun.

Anu sends Earth his daughter Ninmah with female health officers. En route, Ninmah stops at Mars. There she finds Alalu and Anzu dead. It's too late for Alalu, but Ninmah manages to revive Anzu. To commemorate Alalu who discovered the gold that can save Nibiru, Ninmah and Anzu,"The image of Alalu upon the great rock mountain with beams they carved" [op.cit.104].

Ninmah gives Anzu twenty of the astronauts in her company and orders Anzu to establish the first way station for the gold freighters.

Let us pause in the narrative of Ninmah’s journey to Mars and Earth to explicate her relationship to her half-brothers, Ea/Enki and Enlil.

"Enki and Enlil and Ninmah...Offspring of Anu the three leaders were, by different mothers. Enki was the Firstborn Son; a concubine of Anu's was his mother.  Enlil by Antu, the spouse of Anu, was born; the Legal Heir he thus became.  Ninmah by another concubine was mothered, a half sister of the two half brothers she was....Greatly beautiful she was, full of wisdom, one quick to learn.

Ea, as Enki was then named, by Anu to espouse Ninmah was chosen, thereby their offspring son the legal successor thereafter to become. Ninmah of Enlil, a dashing commander, was enamored; by him she was seduced.... " [SItichin, Z., 2002, The Lost Book of Enki, pages 112-113] Ea dictates to his scribe. The rivalry between Ea and Enlil, the critical competition that determines the history of Earth surfaces here, as Ea refers to the sexual connection between his fiancé Ninmah and their half-brother, Commander Enlil, as "seduction."

Ea continues, "A son from Enlil's seed Ninmah bore, Ninurta.... Anu angered; as punishment he Ninmah ever to be a spouse forbade! Ea his bride-to-be by Anu's decree abandoned; a princess named Damkina [Alalu's daughter] he instead espoused; a son, an heir to them was born, Marduk." [Sitichin, 2002, op. cit.] Through his mother, Marduk carries the heritage of Alalu: a propensity to strive endlessly for dominance.

We return from our genealogical segue to Ninmah’s journey to Earth.

She finishes Alalu's monument and continues to Earth. On Earth, Nimmah presents Enki and Enlil with seeds for fruit from which a euphoric elixer can be made. Enlil gets her to come in his plane to his house "by the Cedar Forest" [Lebanon], as a perfect place to plant her seeds. "Once inside, Enlil embraced her, with fervor he kissed Ninmah, 'Oh my sister, my beloved!' Enlil to her whispered. By her loins he grabbed her." But "Into her womb his semen he did not pour." [op.cit., 108]  He promises her a healing city and says he'll bring their son Ninurta to Earth. Enlil's relation with Ninmah chills, however, when he rapes Sud, an assistant she'd brought from Nibiru.  

Ninmah, Enki and a tribunal banish Enlil to Africa, to be delivered there by Abgal, the pilot Ea had promoted from airplane pilot to rocket pilot. Abgal'd helped Enki hide Alalu's nuclear missiles. Now, Abgal betrays Enki.

Abgal takes Enlil to exile in Africa but shows him the nukes’ cave there. Abgal says, "Take the weapons into your possession, with the weapons your freedom obtain!" [op. cit., 114]

Meanwhile, Sud's pregnant from Enlil's rape. Enki and the tribunal ask Sud if she'd marry Enlil if she is his official spouse. She agrees to marry him. So the tribunal and even Ninmah pardon Enlil and he and Sud marry. She's given the title Ninti and bears Nannar/Sin, the first Nibiran Royal born on Earth.  

Enki tells Ninmah, "Come with me in the Abzu ... your adoration of Enlil abandon." In Africa, "Enki there to her words of loving spoke, sweet words he spoke, 'You are still my beloved' to her he said, caressing. He embraced her, he kissed her, she caused his phallus to water. Enki his semen into the womb of Ninmah poured. Give me a son' he cried." [op. cit., 115]

But she bears him a daughter, then, immediately, another daughter. When he insists on another pregnancy "Ninmah against Enki a curse uttered, whatever food he ate was poison in his innards.... To distance himself from Nimmah's vulva Enki by raised arm swore; from her curse Enki was freed. To the Edin Ninmah returned." [op. cit., 116]